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The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance

by Bernard Berenson

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Giotto

1276-1336. Follower of Pietro Cavallini; influenced by Giovanni Pisano.

Assisi. S. Francesco, Lower Church, Chapel of the Magdalen: Frescoes: Feast in the House of Simon (in great part); Raising of Lazarus; “Noli me Tangere,” (in part); Magdalen and Donor (in part)(?). (The remaining frescoes in this chapel are by assistants.) Before 1328.
Upper Church. II-XIX of frescoes recounting the Life of St. Francis (with occasional aid of A). E.
West Wall. Fresco: Madonna.

Boston (U. S. A.).
Mrs. J. L. Gardner: Presentation of Christ in the Temple. L.

Florence. Academy, 103. Madonna enthroned and Angels. S. Croce, Bardi Chapel. Frescoes: Life of St. Francis, etc. (Little more than the compositions are now Giotto’s.) Not earlier than 1317.
Peruzzi Chapel. Frescoes: Lives of the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist (considerably repainted). L.

Munich.
983. Last Supper.

Padua. Arena Chapel. Frescoes: Lives of Christ and His Mother; Last Judgment; Symbolical Figures. About 1305-6.
Sacristy. Painted Crucifix. About 1305-6.

Rome.
S. Giovanni Laterano, Pillar R. Aisle. Fragment of Fresco: Boniface VIII proclaiming the Jubilee. 1300.

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